Top Ten Tuesdays

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

No, nor should I. It's a critically acclaimed film which was nominated for thirteen Oscars, including Best Picture, winning five!

Fair enough. I think its silly grating drivel of the lowest order. Horses for courses though.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Fair enough. I think its silly grating drivel of the lowest order. Horses for courses though.

Millions would disagree with you, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[Susan Foreman]

Like other people have mentioned, I don't get the concept of 'guilty pleasure' films, so here are 10 films I love, but I always have to defend or explain my love for when talking about them to other people:

• The Wizard Of Oz - The greatest film ever made. Perfect in every way
• I Spit On Your Grave (1978) - Like other films that were classed as 'video nasties' it is impossible to defend...if you have never actually bothered to watch it! I think it is a very well made thriller
• Batman (1966) - How Batman should be - camp and amusing. I used to have a customer who was a huge comic book fan, and he couldn't understand my love for this version. He would always bring up the 'Bat shark-repellent spray' as proof of the stupidity of this film, but he could grasp the fact that this is where it's genius came from
• Plan 9 From Outer Space - I don't get the hatred for this film. I think it is one of the greatest and most important science fiction films of the 50's. It was very ahead of its time!
• Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - Again, the people who make fun of this film are those who have only heard the title, but never actually seen it. Yes, it is stupid, but that it it's charm. It's a spoof of creature-features in the same way that 'Airplane' (which this film pre-dates, and shares the same sense of humour with) is a spoof of disaster films
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - Camp, hilarious grand guignol horror film
• Rock Of Ages - Admittedly the film has awful casting (Julianne Hough in particular cannot sing to save her life), but musically it contains the soundtrack of my youth
• Shock Treatment - The semi-sequel to 'Rocky Horror' will never win any awards, but again it has a great soundtrack, containing some of Richard O'Brien's best songs
• Brady Bunch Movie - Full of in-jokes for people who grew up watching television and listening to music in the 70's
• Withnail And I - Eminently quotable and constantly hilarious. The perfect film for when you have 'the finest wines available to humanity', but you have 'gone on holiday by mistake' and you are being threatened with 'a dead fish'!

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Like other people have mentioned, I don't get the concept of 'guilty pleasure' films, so here are 10 films I love, but I always have to defend or explain my love for when talking about them to other people:

• The Wizard Of Oz - The greatest film ever made. Perfect in every way
• I Spit On Your Grave (1978) - Like other films that were classed as 'video nasties' it is impossible to defend...if you have never actually bothered to watch it! I think it is a very well made thriller
• Batman (1966) - How Batman should be - camp and amusing. I used to have a customer who was a huge comic book fan, and he couldn't understand my love for this version. He would always bring up the 'Bat shark-repellent spray' as proof of the stupidity of this film, but he could grasp the fact that this is where it's genius came from
• Plan 9 From Outer Space - I don't get the hatred for this film. I think it is one of the greatest and most important science fiction films of the 50's. It was very ahead of its time!
• Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - Again, the people who make fun of this film are those who have only heard the title, but never actually seen it. Yes, it is stupid, but that it it's charm. It's a spoof of creature-features in the same way that 'Airplane' (which this film pre-dates, and shares the same sense of humour with) is a spoof of disaster films
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - Camp, hilarious grand guignol horror film
• Rock Of Ages - Admittedly the film has awful casting (Julianne Hough in particular cannot sing to save her life), but musically it contains the soundtrack of my youth
• Shock Treatment - The semi-sequel to 'Rocky Horror' will never win any awards, but again it has a great soundtrack, containing some of Richard O'Brien's best songs
• Brady Bunch Movie - Full of in-jokes for people who grew up watching television and listening to music in the 70's
• Withnail And I - Eminently quotable and constantly hilarious. The perfect film for when you have 'the finest wines available to humanity', but you have 'gone on holiday by mistake' and you are being threatened with 'a dead fish'!

Withnail & I??!!!

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Like other people have mentioned, I don't get the concept of 'guilty pleasure' films, so here are 10 films I love

Originally Posted by J Harker

Withnail & I??!!!

As I stated in my original post:

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I always have to defend or explain my love for when talking about them to other people:

I rest my case!

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

As I stated in my original post:



I rest my case!

What numnuts needs the brilliance of Withnail and I explained to them?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

What numnuts needs the brilliance of Withnail and I explained to them?

Just what i was thinking...although i'd have said numb nuts.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Just what i was thinking...although i'd have said numb nuts.

Its the welsh 😆

[Susan Foreman]

You'd be surprised

We would get a lot of foreign customers in the pub, and the two topics you could ALWAYS guarantee a conversation out of was music and films

It seems that 'Withnail' is just "too British" for some people to enjoy - the same way they didn't like Monty Python or 'Carry On'

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Like other people have mentioned, I don't get the concept of 'guilty pleasure' films, so here are 10 films I love, but I always have to defend or explain my love for when talking about them to other people:

• I Spit On Your Grave (1978) - Like other films that were classed as 'video nasties' it is impossible to defend...if you have never actually bothered to watch it! I think it is a very well made thriller

Agree with you on this one, its actually a very good film. Can understand why it would need some defending though. Probably to the same halfwits who don't understand Withnail.